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From: "Vishal Jain" <vxj45 AT hotmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: international chars in user name
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 14:08:55 -0700
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I was looking at the cygwin code.
Functions like cygwin_logon_user() makes a call to LogonUserA(). It is 
explicitly calling ascii version.
Also parsing of gecos field assumes that it is ascii (functions like 
internal_getpwsid() in passwd.cc).
I wonder if there are other things.
Vishal
>From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
>Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>To: Vishal Jain <vxj45 AT hotmail DOT com>
>CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>Subject: Re: international chars in user name
>Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 16:40:59 -0400 (EDT)
>
>On Fri, 16 May 2003, Vishal Jain wrote:
>
> > Does cygwin support user name with international characters?
> > thanks,
> > Vishal
>
>Vishal,
>
>If Windows supports it, Cygwin most likely supports it.  Some scripts may
>not have the proper quoting and the like, though...
>
>FYI, you can change your Cygwin username to be whatever you want -- as
>long as the SID is intact, Cygwin will know which Windows user is
>associated with which Cygwin username.  Technically, the same goes for the
>UID as well, but there are some other issues there (e.g., access on
>network shares).
>	Igor
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